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din

UK/dɪn/ US/ˈdɪn/ uncommon
noun (2) verb (2)

noun

1.
2.

verb

1.

make a resonant sound, like artillery

  • “His deep voice boomed through the hall”
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2.

instill (into a person) by constant repetition

  • “he dinned the lessons into his students”

Origin

From Middle English dyne, dynne, from Old English dyne, from Proto-West Germanic *duni, from Proto-Germanic *duniz, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰún-is, from *dʰwen- (“to make a noise”). Cognate with English tone, Sanskrit धुनि (dhúni, “sounding”), ध्वनति (dhvánati, “to make a noise, to roar”), Old Norse dynr, Norwegian Nynorsk dynja, Swedish dån, dön.

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